Buddha explained the Dhamma in different ways with different words to different people, according to the stage of their development and their capacity to understand and follow him, but the essence of those many thousand discourses scattered hi the Buddhist Scriptures are found hi the Noble Eightfold Path and summarized hi the Threefold Doctrines namely;
1. Not to do bad
2. To do good, and
3. To purify the mind from its impurities or mental defilement